A Force To Be Reckoned With
A Force To Be Reckoned With
206. Life Update: We Think We Might Like Each Other
Have you ever felt God nudge you to do something challenging?
We're back with another life update. From high stakes to minor conflicts, we dig deep into the real battles that test our resilience every day. Despite the chaos, we find strength in our unity and ability to laugh even sometimes when we probably shouldn't.
As you may remember, we recently found mold in our home, leading to an exhaustive (and expensive!) remediation process. We open up about the significant toll it took but also celebrate the invaluable lessons learned—like the importance of accepting help and prioritizing health. Amidst the turmoil, our beach trip with friends offered a much-needed breath of fresh air. It was a reminder that experiences and the support of good friends are worth more than any financial worry.
We dive into our foster care journey, sharing the emotional rollercoaster of accepting a newborn into our lives. Faith played a crucial role in reaffirming our commitment to fostering, and we reveal how our experiences have inspired others to pursue the same path.
Wrapping up, we discuss our financial journey, highlighting the sacrifices and unexpected expenses along the way. We thank our listeners for their unwavering support and share our excitement for upcoming episodes, including an insightful interview with our friend Kristin Nave on studying the Bible.
Buckle up, tune in, and enjoy the ride!
Episode Highlights:
- We kind of like each other.
- Here’s a little life update.
- Our mold remediation experience.
- Corey shaved his head.
- We said ‘yes’ again.
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We are at war and it's not against our neighbors, spouses, children, politicians or whatever else we feel like we're battling against.
Speaker 2:So the questions are who's the fight against, and are we winning or losing? We're the Adkins, and we are a force to be reckoned with. Are you ready to join the force, hi, everybody oh my gosh I'm in it. I'm in a good mood.
Speaker 1:You're not used to that this isn't gonna change halfway through the episode, is it?
Speaker 2:It could, and then, if it is, if it does, this might not air. So we're here, we're doing a life update today.
Speaker 1:I hold on. I just want to say that we are here. We are in a room that is here, it's presently in this place and it's a room that we are in and we're in chairs.
Speaker 2:Yes room that we are in and we're in chairs, yes, so we hope you guys are doing good. We're doing a life update today. I mapped out some episodes about a month ago, so like had no intentions of taking time off, but life just got the best of us and we usually record like late in the evenings and we've been been tired and I don't even know.
Speaker 1:I just want to go back. If anybody got my we're here in a room joke, text me or DM me.
Speaker 2:I didn't get it.
Speaker 1:I'll tell you later, okay.
Speaker 2:So the title of this episode at the time of me mapping it was BIG in all caps life update colon. We think we might like each other. I honestly don't even remember writing that at this point after the week we've had is there a date linked to when you wrote? It july that's 23rd. Yeah, no, no, that's when the episode was supposed to go out.
Speaker 1:This was on july 9th so yeah, like I do remember us having this conversation talking about liking each other.
Speaker 2:What was, what were we even gonna say? I honestly don't know because right now that's feeling really far from me we feel like I really like each other really you don't remember.
Speaker 1:No, this was just like a week ago, dude.
Speaker 2:No no July 9th.
Speaker 1:I know, but it was like a week ago that we still did like each other.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was. You're like man. I feel like our marriage is in a really good spot, you know.
Speaker 2:Where were we when we were talking about this? Was it in your dreams?
Speaker 1:No, we were in the living room.
Speaker 2:What do you mean? What were we saying? We were just talking about that.
Speaker 1:Okay, like we've been getting along real well, we've been having fun, everything was going good.
Speaker 2:And then you know, the devil must have heard. The devil must have heard me talking out loud and he knew right where to get a foothold. Okay, but really I yeah. So on to the next topic.
Speaker 1:Yeah, let's just skip all of that.
Speaker 2:I mean, is there anything else you want to say?
Speaker 1:No, we haven't even talked about any of this.
Speaker 2:About us fighting.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Well, not even fighting.
Speaker 2:We're not fighting.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you just became a whole other person on Monday.
Speaker 2:I've been very stressed.
Speaker 1:We've all been stressed, Beth. We've all been stressed it's 2024, dude. We're all stressed out of our minds, man.
Speaker 2:It's an election year. That's my response to everything. I don't know, guys. It's an election year.
Speaker 1:It's an election year We've had four years of chaos and craziness and Biden-Harris inflation.
Speaker 2:I'm getting hot, yeah. So I don't know, I think things have been fine. I just I've been stressed, we've been working a lot. I've been working all day and coming home and working late and a little bit grumpy, okay, because, and coming home and working late and a little bit grumpy, okay, because the house is getting a mess. I don't do well when the house is a mess. I don't do good when there's water bottles on the counter. I don't do good when there's anything on the counter, and right now there's stuff on the counter.
Speaker 1:So you guys probably have your little things that set you off and I feel like that was just like the straw that broke the camel's back, though, dude, like seriously, a couple things on the counter that weren't even mine for me it's a sign that things are getting out of control.
Speaker 2:There's like a couple little like red flags when I know that things are getting out of control, like the laundry is piled up, the there's stuff on the counter like we've had.
Speaker 1:We've had very busy few weeks and things have been stacking up, yeah, but I will say, you know, we did like each other for about a month, so I mean that was good.
Speaker 2:A month out of 12.
Speaker 1:I mean look you wrote this at the beginning of july, yeah, so we and we liked each other a little bit before that. So probably in late june, yeah, maybe, even, maybe even all of june, I don't know, I don't know. Probably in late June, yeah, maybe even all of June.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I don't know it could have been. Let's just get crazy and say it was all of June too.
Speaker 1:And then August hit and say, yeah, you know, it's been two months.
Speaker 2:See ya.
Speaker 1:Deuces.
Speaker 2:See ya, so is there anything you want to take away from that, or what Like? Are we just announcing our split now, or what are we doing with this, because I didn't intend to go here.
Speaker 1:No, but like it is weeks like this that makes me really happy that I don't have life insurance, because you have no incentive to knock me off.
Speaker 2:Well, in all reality, we're still married. We do. We do love each other. We might not like each other right now.
Speaker 1:All the time.
Speaker 2:But we do love each other and I do like you. But you are the first yes to get my stress and I'm sorry. Okay, wow, moving on.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:Was that so big of me?
Speaker 1:Is it real?
Speaker 2:I mean, does it count if my toes are full?
Speaker 1:We're going to find out, we hit end record and then you're smacked.
Speaker 2:How dare you bring that up on the podcast? You could have edited the whole thing now. Okay, all right, let's get.
Speaker 1:Let's get to it so, in all seriousness, that we have, we've, we've gone along a little bit we've come a real long way, like. I feel like when we do argue, like we work it out pretty sure hopefully quickly. We like hanging out with each other, like I like hanging out with each other, like I like hanging out with you more than I like hanging out with anybody that's good, that's good and I know that you I was.
Speaker 1:That's when you say I also like hanging out with you more than I like hanging out with anybody else I do you know, I said that to me two weeks ago our favorite, Like my favorite time of day is like get to bed. That's not to me, guys, that's to the kids. Yeah, see, see this.
Speaker 2:What about it? What about it? I'm just saying we don't deserve to have a podcast this is out there.
Speaker 2:So, backing up, I mean it's been a long time since we've talked, because we talked and then we had a few weeks of episodes and that was well before vacation. So since we've been on here last, oh, we talked about the mold and we said we were just going to dive into it a little bit more. So just really briefly, we I had been. If you guys didn't listen to Tracy's series. Listen to it. She's amazing, she's our nutritionist and she's great.
Speaker 2:And she does so much more than talk about food but just like life as a whole and the very third episode, it talks more about like EMFs and mold and all of this really really crazy stuff and all of this really really crazy stuff.
Speaker 1:Well, I had been and just shout out to Tracy, because now Tracy and I are close enough that we have a strong DM game on Instagram going on.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, Well, we should tally it up.
Speaker 1:Oh what.
Speaker 2:Because she DMs me too.
Speaker 1:She's cheating on me with you. Yes, she is.
Speaker 2:And I bet you that they're not even the same reels they're probably not and mine are probably more funny doubt it so, anyway, she's great.
Speaker 2:But we I had been getting sick for a while and realized, like, as I'm like reading and doing more like research on health and stuff, I'm like I think we have mold in this house. Sure enough, we did so we had to be out of our house. It ended up being close to three weeks. Thankfully it lined up with a vacation that we had planned over a year ago. It was super expensive, super, super expensive. Like, yeah, we'll get to that, but we had. We were able to stay with my parents, we had wonderful friends who took us in and put up with us, and it was just like.
Speaker 2:It was a very humbling experience because relying on, not like asking for help yeah there were a couple days I was in my car crying because I just feel so bad Is that real. Oh yeah, yeah. I don't like feeling like, I like to be the one helping. I don't want to be helped you know yeah. But, it was a great. It was actually a really fun time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I do want to go back just real quick on the mold thing, because this, the company that we used oh, he's changing his name too, isn't he? Well, his name is john and he's really nice yeah john clay so, anyways, it's not like your normal mold remediation thing, which I think is important for anybody out there. That's like very health conscious and, you know, takes it was referred to as a good holistic mix into their life.
Speaker 1:You know, which is, you know the way God designed things. But, um, he took that approach and so he was real. They were really in depth, very detailed, to making sure they were getting rid of everything of what their processes were Um adding a special uh filter uh were um adding a special uh filter uh onto our system and everything.
Speaker 1:They were very thorough, very thorough yeah, so anyways, I just wanted to get that, get that out there, because this wasn't just like a normal, like hey, there was some mold in your basement, you know, scrape it off and spray paint it, you know this was very thorough.
Speaker 2:Our entire basement was gutted and our entire house was clean carpet scrubbed, surfaces washed, washed bedding, washed everything. We came home, the house was ew, I couldn't have been happier. I didn't want to live here anymore because I didn't want. Well, I wanted to live here, but I didn't want anybody else to live here with me. But it didn't work out like that, so anyway, I don't even know what that meant like you guys had to come home to the next thing.
Speaker 2:no, I like I really hope that those of you out there that don't personally know us know that like I am sarcastic and I like to make jokes and sometimes they're they sound mean or they're not funny, but I think they are and I want to say that I'm working on it but I'm not.
Speaker 1:This is who I am and you're not going to change me. I don't know. It's like my dad jokes.
Speaker 2:Okay. So we came home, we, we, we went on vacation. It was great. We had such a good relax. I was like the first family vacation that we had, that we had no agenda. We did nothing. We sat around. We went to Top Sail, North Carolina with two of our really close family friends and it was just such a good trip. We did nothing.
Speaker 1:We ate tacos on the beach. We went to the beach yeah, and then we did go to the pool yeah, and then we went to the beach yeah, and then the pool yeah, it was just so good.
Speaker 2:It was so good we ate coffee, we drank coffee on the balcony and it was great. So that was like, honestly, with the mold stuff, there was a point where I kept saying to cory, we should probably just back out, like we should probably just not go, because financially and like is it the right thing? But I'm so glad we did. And so in all of that, I'm not saying be financially irresponsible, but take the vacation with your family, you know like I know this sounds probably millennial of me, but Yolo right, like we only live once and it's about experiences.
Speaker 1:And then, you know, we were we just we needed it as a family, we needed some time to just recoup and relax and all that stuff, like, and I knew that. I knew that we needed it and that's why I didn't want us to back out of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you need people in your life that are going to force you to do that kind of stuff. Like on spring break, we, our friends, we did a last minute trip and you need people in your life who are going to be like just get out of your head and just do it, like life is so short and stop working so much, and it I mean it was just good and I'm glad that we went and I'm glad that you like didn't let me cancel and I'm glad that we have friends that are like, okay, like our friends call me regrethany, because we always make these plans and I'm like I don't know, I don't think so. Guys, I literally do this probably once a week. I'm just going to hang back and then, like five minutes before, I'm like, is it still too late for us? Because I do want to. And so they call me regretheny because I always regret my decisions.
Speaker 1:Or burden Beth.
Speaker 2:Yeah, listen, we can't all have really cool nicknames for all the confident things that we are. It might have to be regret the name Bird and Beth, so okay. So it was great we got to spend time with our kids. We talked a lot about foster care at that time. It was just our family of five, our core biological family, and we were kind of even going back and forth, like are we even going to do foster care? We think so.
Speaker 1:But, like we'll probably take several months break, more and it was great, and but we were just weren't sure and you and I even, like we were able to just spend time just the two of us too, like, and we went and took that really long walk on the beach how did we do that? Oh we left the kids yeah, like maya took a nap and carter and lib just hung out in the room.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, so we got to spend time together talking and just like talking about our goals, and you know all the things, and so it was good, so we. Another thing that's recently happened is cory shaved his head, was that? What do you guys think? My hair's gone I wish, like you know how people do, pregnancy videos where, like you see people's responses to like announcing, like I'm pregnant, and people are like, oh, like I wish I would have gone around with a video camera when you walked into people's room, like you just randomly shaved your head and I didn't tell anybody, just walked in.
Speaker 2:Most of the people that we know in our lives now, like in our hometown, only know you with hair.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Like I met you when you had a shaved head. So for, like the first, I don't know Buzzed head For the first, like six or seven years of our marriage, your head was buzzed yeah, I buzzed my head from when I was like 18, somewhere around then, until I was like what, 30?
Speaker 1:how old would I have been?
Speaker 2:30 32, yeah, no 30, now like 28, something like that, I don't know, but so, like everybody that is in our life now, they've only known you with hair and so, and you have nice hair, you do and and people were like it, it it is shocking like to see you with a buzzed head. I it's familiar to me yeah but to other people.
Speaker 2:They're like you have such a nice head of hair and they were like like. People were like what did you do? Nobody was like oh, it looks so good. They were were like uh, what did you do? Anyway, corey shaved his head. We came home from vacation. He didn't shave your head on vacation it was his little hour.
Speaker 2:But back to foster care, like we weren't sure, but we did start getting. We actually got a call when we were arriving at vacation. We came home, we got several other calls and we just weren't ready. Like we got calls back to back to back to back. Like I think four days in a row we got calls for different kids and we said no, no.
Speaker 2:And then the one day I woke up it was a Friday and I told Corey like you know what? I think that we could do a baby. I feel like we're supposed to take a baby. And Corey's like I don't know. And I was like do you want me to call our worker? Do you want me to call her and tell her that we could take a baby? And he was like no, and I was like okay, so I called her.
Speaker 2:Anyway. She didn't answer, though she didn't know that you did that well, so she did call me back that night and she was like hey, she's like I saw you called, but also I needed to call you. And I was like okay. And she was like there's this baby at the hospital and I was like are you serious? I mean it, it was weird, but anyway it was for a little baby girl and um, we ended up saying no, there were some um complexities yeah that we just couldn't take on at that time and so we ended up saying no, but I was like that's, that's just like so weird.
Speaker 2:I just I was kind of bummed because I was like I feel like we're supposed to take baby and yeah anyway yeah, and then there was another call for sibling set.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then wasn't there. Was there another call? I?
Speaker 2:feel like there was like two more calls every day it seemed like and the one it was the day before. Um, anyway, we got it, we got a sibling set call and it was, you know, two kiddos really young, one was a baby and it was just another horrible story. And, um, we, we did talk it through and talked to carter because his room would have had to shift around and he was good with it, and so we called back and said yes and um, but it another family had said yes right before us.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So it didn't work out and I was like man, what is this Like? Maybe we're just not supposed to right now. And so then, the very next morning, I was driving to some random person's house to pick up my Facebook marketplace purchase and we got a call for a little guy, a couple days old baby. And yeah, we said yes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I talked a little bit about this on. I was interviewed on Hope Bridges podcast Restoried. I don't know when this episode's coming out, but a few weeks ago. But you know we needed that time. We needed the three months we needed to reset and get our bodies healthy, our minds healthy and get into good habits, spend time with our kids and on vacation. We just I wasn't feeling ready. I didn't feel like our family was quite ready yet. You weren't fully feeling ready yet either.
Speaker 1:We were kind of going back and forth about it and then through that process of that week, just through these calls, you know, saying no, and then it was the sibling set call.
Speaker 1:Honestly, yeah, I was praying about it. I went on a walk and was just praying about it and that was kind of the final piece for me, as I felt God calling us to just get back, get off the couch and get back in the game. That you know he will sustain us, that you know. I just felt this feeling and these thoughts in my head of just like, okay, we're, we're, we've built the habits, we've done the time, we're feeling good. And it was almost even to the point where, like we were almost tempted to not do foster care and stay in that, because we were having such a good season, you know, of just building our habits again and being healthy and all that stuff and and just having our three and we were, we were almost tempted, you know, just by that, but then I just felt God saying I will sustain you, I will take care of you. I've taken care of you before and I'll do it again.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And that's why we said yes, and then it just led to us getting we'll just call him little guy for now, okay, but um, yeah, yeah, I mean it's been a month, so like we really haven't recorded in months. But yeah, I mean it's foster care, such a wild ride. I definitely a piece that we're in it. I know there were definitely points where I was like we're not doing this or we're done after this and um, yeah, I don't know, I just have total peace that we're supposed to continue doing it and there's just such a need, such a need, and so it's been really cool. Actually I haven't even talked to you because we've been so busy this week, but um, we, I went to this book retreat, that retreat like the week that we got licensed, basically, and that was two years ago, and so it was right when we got our first placements and I had left like two days after they came, and so I talked a lot about it at that book retreat and I didn't really connect with very many people at that retreat.
Speaker 2:I was just kind of like in my own little world there. But like, yeah, I had good conversations with people. And there was this girl who I had some conversation with, but we didn't like hang out much or anything there, but then, after the retreat, she had reached out and said that they were talking about doing foster care, but I don't remember like how long ago it was. I think it was quite a while after the retreat ended. Anyway, all that to say, this week we finally connected and talked to. I talked on the phone and she's in the process of getting licensed for foster care.
Speaker 2:Yeah, which is like super exciting, and they're from Ohio, but they actually live in a different state now. And yeah, I just I don't know what my point in telling that story was, but I was just saying there's such a need and um, it's just.
Speaker 1:It was probably just because it's part of the reason as to why we're doing it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Just because it is also in a sense some recruitment, even just by awareness.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Honestly, I think half the battle with foster care is people just don't know about it.
Speaker 2:Really, I mean, I didn't yeah you know, I feel like that's probably the biggest piece as to why everybody's in such a need is because people are just not aware of the need right in your own backyard yeah, yeah, and so I mean there is such a need and we I don't know we just decided to keep going, and so if there's anybody out there that feels like they want to do it, reach out to us. We've had some really good conversations over the last couple of months with people who, you know, have talked about it or thinking about it or are getting in the process of getting licensed, and then we just need more. So that's all of our bit on foster care this week. But, yeah, we'll definitely keep you posted and we actually I'm going to talk about what our next few weeks of the podcast look like and talk about a little bit about what happened today, because it was a really cool day.
Speaker 2:So, okay, this is just a really quick life update and then next week I've had this interview recorded for several weeks now that I'm really excited to air. It's my friend and um previous client and she is like a wizard. I shouldn't even that sounds blasphemous, but like she's so good at studying the Bible, I was going to say she's a wizard at studying the Bible.
Speaker 2:She's a witch at studying the Bible, but like she's incredible and I feel like my interview with her will inspire many, and so I'm really excited to share that.
Speaker 2:So this week is the life update, next week is the interview with Kristen and then the following really excited to share that. So this week is the life update, next week is the interview with Kristen, and then the following two weeks we're going to share. Like so many of you, have been invested in our journey, whether it be like in real life or people who have stayed connected and messaged us online and just asked for updates and said you're praying for us or whatever, and so we are not going to be one of those people who, like you're, like. You know those people on social media and maybe this is just a girl thing, but they are like lovey dovey and they are posting pictures and they are just so in love. And then, the next thing, you know the they both changed their profile pictures to like selfies of them and you're like OK, so you like told us all about your relationship and now you're broken up and we don't even get to know why.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't. Guys don't have that If they do. We didn't notice. We didn't notice you changed your profile picture, bro.
Speaker 2:At least just tell us why. Just tell us why. So we're not going to do that deal with our foster care journey.
Speaker 1:I was wondering where you were going with this.
Speaker 2:We want to share it because it's an incredible story that God has written, and there's just so many things and we want to be so careful in how we do it because in no way do we want to exploit these kids or this family, and there's so many things that we'll leave out because it's such a personal thing, but it's also one that I just feel like, yeah, yeah that needs to be shared.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a wild and crazy story man yeah and I just real quick going back, because beth and I do have selfies as our profile pictures, but they were already that okay yeah, right, and also, we're just not the lovey-dovey type yeah, when you were just touching my knee, I was like people are gonna.
Speaker 2:No wonder girls think you're up for grabs, because do you hear how we talk to each other? This is our way of flirting, though, isn't it? Yeah, some girls are like how long did you put my hand on?
Speaker 1:his knee and we all mine.
Speaker 2:Like, yeah, I don't know. I feel like if one of us died and we ever had to get back into the dating game I'd be screwed like I would be probably put in jail for like being mean yes, like people would. I just don't even know how to flirt because it's just like oh shut up. I don't know, it's just not it's not really grace filled, but I don't know. Okay, man. I might need to quit the podcast after today.
Speaker 2:You're beating yourself up now A lot of things, a lot of things. So life update, kristen nave, two episodes of our foster care story, so we have a lot coming up. And then after that, the two of us sharing our story, we're actually going to have the kid's mom on and I'm just so excited for you guys to, I mean, meet her probably isn't the right phrase, but even just get to hear, I mean it is yeah way it is getting to meet somebody pleasure of like hearing her and her story.
Speaker 2:I cannot wait for you guys to hear that episode. So make sure you're following the show, make sure you get the updates, because you're not going to want to miss it. And you should probably have tissues too, because it's probably going to make you cry.
Speaker 1:There's no crying.
Speaker 2:There's no way.
Speaker 1:There's no crying. You can no way. There's no crying.
Speaker 2:You can't even argue it and I know you're not a crier, but neither am I, but in this scenario it's a good one, okay, so, speaking of the mold, and speaking of the money, and speaking of the debt, we didn't.
Speaker 2:all we talked about was the mold oh well, we got like we the whole podcast started because of our debt updates and we were doing so good, we moved home like we downsized from California from a. I mean we were living. I mean we were living I'm talking about size like we were living. I'm talking about size like we were living in a 3,500 square foot home and then we came and lived in a two-bedroom apartment and we were driving one car and and we were just cranking out paying off debt and it was so amazing and also like that's why people were listening when we started was because the debt updates, because we were very, very transparent. Like I almost can't even go back and listen to those episodes because we were too transparent.
Speaker 2:But we have just had some life come up. Everything's expensive right now. Maya had to ride in an ambulance. We've had some financial emergencies. We had a lot of kids and had to ride in an ambulance. We've had some financial emergencies. We had a lot of kids and had to get a new car. We had a mold scenario that was like almost it was like a lot of money yeah, and what year did we start sharing that, all that stuff?
Speaker 1:2020 was it 2020 or I thought it was. It was a 2019 oh yeah, 2019 it was 2019, and what year is it?
Speaker 2:2024 oh you're, you're getting political here.
Speaker 1:No I'm not making excuse or anything, but all I'm saying is that I feel like a lot of people out there listening can relate right now, because inflation is crazy and things cost so much more money than they did then and wages haven't made up that difference and interest rates are through the roof. A lot of people have accumulated debt over the past four years.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. So we will probably be doing that again. In the fall, we're going to have to be a little bit more less candid than we were last time.
Speaker 1:How candid were we Like. What did we share?
Speaker 2:It was pretty obvious, like what you were making and stuff, I think.
Speaker 1:I don't think it was, it wasn't.
Speaker 2:Uh-uh, okay, yeah, and I don't even know. Yeah, we'll figure it out, but stay, yeah, and I don't even know. Yeah, we'll figure it out, but stay tuned for that. I'm just trying to give some teasers of what's to come and yeah, so I guess, with did we, did we like, did we post our tax returns or something on there I don't know, I just it.
Speaker 2:It was a lot easier when we came back here. We didn't know anybody and like I could go to the grocery store and go places and not run into people and like go to practices and people didn't know us. Like, and like also nobody knew around here that we had a podcast, and so for me to like talk about our financial stress and stuff. It was like, oh well, nobody knows me here and so now what? I'm just listening. So now, like for us to get on here and talk about our debt and our finances and like that it's one. It's like really uncomfortable and embarrassing. But then two, like if I show up somewhere with a Starbucks, then Good Accountability.
Speaker 1:I better get a DM immediately.
Speaker 2:If I go to a football practice and I have a Starbucks and somebody there listened to one of our latest podcast episodes.
Speaker 1:I'm like dude, what are you doing?
Speaker 2:Then I am going to look like a hypocrite.
Speaker 1:You are then Good and hopefully, when you go to try to buy something off a Facebook marketplace, you get flagged Like no, no, I've heard your podcast, you're not buying this end table.
Speaker 2:Okay, you're not getting this ruggable maybe it's a good thing, I don't know oh, it's a good thing.
Speaker 1:And we are going to be just as transparent everybody, because we don't, we need, we can't care what other people think. We just talked to carter about this it's not caring what people think.
Speaker 2:I don't want people to feel bad for us.
Speaker 1:That's caring what people think like what do you think that somebody's just gonna show up on our door like they deliver, example for groceries?
Speaker 2:like when we go to hang out with a group of our friends and then everybody like buys dinner, but like we all have dinner as a family, but we all split it like four ways or something, Then they're going to be like oh guys, they already do that because they're, like you guys, ordered off of the value menu.
Speaker 1:Remember, we're the canoe family, dude. They don't already do that, do they? I'm sure they do Every time we're buying something. Hey, no, kids, you can only get water.
Speaker 2:You guys got any specials you got, you got a twofer I know, and then you got a family meal deal guys, we'll buy you stuff like I don't want to be that friend, but here we are. Here we are okay. So yeah, I mean this last point, we can scrap it. It says talk about working on ourselves and making and making time for each other.
Speaker 1:That ended, we did that. We did that for three months.
Speaker 2:We don't need any more of that, but it does say making time to laugh, and we did that tonight, so high five that was a terrible high five high five. What are you?
Speaker 1:doing. Why'd you do that?
Speaker 2:I don't know, high five, what would you do that, okay? So yeah, I mean, that's pretty much it. I don't. This doesn't have any value, so we're sorry, but come back next week. I think that's summed it up alright, we'll see you next week yeah, come back next week, it really will be better, guys. You Bye.